#the exception to it compared to everyone else doing it

[venusscore]

Bruce Wayne finds out he has another biological child (reader), except they’re a teenager:

From the get-go, Bruce is nervous around you. He partially feels guilty for missing so much or your life, so he doesn’t know if he can really parent you

He does his best to discourage you from being a vigilante. He doesn’t need another kid to worry about

The first time you gave him some of that teenage attitude, he was shocked. You didn’t seem too sassy, but then he realized you were also a high school student. He had to expect this. He tried to be stern, but it was so difficult! He was so used to his other kids, whose forms of rebellion ranged from fighting villains twice their size without backup, to becoming full on criminals (cough Jason cough). He knew he needed to be stern with you, but how could he when your little sarcastic comments and dressing in clothes he didn’t approve of were the worst you do?

Dick has already had many siblings, and you’re not the first he’d met when they were a teenager. You are, however, the first to not be a vigilante. He wants to relate to you, he really does, but his childhood was a mix of acrobatics and then fighting criminals, so he’s resorted to just listening to you complain about classes and drama, throwing in the occasional “mhm” or comment to show he’s listening and he cares

Jason is NOT used to someone who cannot only take his comments, but fires back with twice the burn. As intelligent as Damian is, he usually results to threats, rather than matching Jason’s tone

So one day, when Jason and you are bickering, he tries to end it with “whatever floats your boat,” in a slightly condescending tone. Before he could walk off, however, you say “at least my boat can float.”

Tim gets along great with you! He’s also a teenager, and he feels somewhat normal when you and him chat about your days

You tell him all the drama and who you’re angry at that week. He loves it. Heck, he even knows some of the people you’re talking about! (Forever 17) With that, you also love to give him advice on his love life, regardless of whether you have or haven’t dated guys.

“Trust me, he was not weirded out when you kissed his cheek last night.” You assure him for the third time while doing your homework. “Are you sure?” He asks again, to which you nod and close your book.

Damian, depending on your age, might have different opinions on you.

If you’re closer to his age (14/15), I’d imagine he’d at first be competitive with you. He’d constantly look down on you and your lack of skills. However, since you’re both in similar (or even the same) classes, he eventually found companionship and asks you for advice. He also constantly listens to your gossiping and drama

If you’re older, though, I think he’d see you similar to how he does Tim. Think maybe the way Sheldon Cooper treats Howard Wolowitz. No, he doesn’t hate you. No, he doesn’t really like you as much as everyone else, but he does internally respect you. He just looks down on your lack of physical ability, compared to him

Stephanie loves you! She remembers being your age, and listening to your high school life is so awesome for her. I think she’d connect with you a bit better if you’re a girl, but you also would be in her favor anyway

Similar to last time, she wants you to be smart. She tries to do brain teasers with you and get you to challenge yourself, to which you humor her with, but there’s been moments you’ve had to just say you’re not in the mood

Duke also gets along great with you! (Depending on the comic, he might be in high school or college, which I’ll base it off of) He’s close in age, and honestly, he too sometimes feels a bit out of place in this huge family, and he’s probably had one of the more normal childhoods out of the group, so you both bond over finally having someone to relate to. He also LOVES when you give that teenage smartass attitude to the others. It makes his day

Cassandra is probably the least close to you. She’s sweet and all, but you both just… don’t relate. However, she one day catches you watching her while she’s training, and is caught off guard. After that, sometimes she’d teach you some basic martial arts moves, just to keep you safe in the danger-zone known as Gotham. You picked up quickly on her non-verbal cues, and now you two are good buds

Extras! (Again):

Barbara likes you a lot! She thought being a teenager was great, and she looooves taking you out to go shopping, chat about friends, or generally just hangout. You’re one of the few she knew as a regular person first, not a vigilante. She was never freakishly smart, and had to always study for good grades, so she happily helps you if you need it, since almost everyone else either didn’t go to school, or is naturally intelligent

Selina is always happy to talk to you. She at first tried to get along so you’d leave a good word to Bruce for her (she’s been pining for too long), but now she genuinely likes you! You tell her about school drama, and in turn, she complains about boring adult stuff and gives you gossip on your dad- it’s great!

Now whenever Bruce complains about women talking to him, or the new date he went on (you can take the man out of the playboy, but not the playboy out of the man), you always throw in something like “Well there’s always Selina” or “Selina would never.”

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Guess who has exams next week 😭😭

I already did one of these with toddler reader, but I actually was going to make the original post a teenager, but then I was like “I should do all stages of life!”

But I got burnt out after the first, so I decided to continue that here

thanks for the support on the last one! Y’all are so sweet! I plan on making more bcs this is really fun! Again, if I messed anything up, feel free to lmk

if anyone has any other ideas, I’d love to see them in comments/reposts/messages!

Have a good one!

(Also I love reading reposts/comments in general, so don’t be shy on opinions)

[acid-ixx]

okay so long rant ahead.

it's almost 4am over here, and i'll delete this post once i wake up, but i just wanna rant about how 90% of the time i do really end up regretting writing again &. again truthfully and how most of the time i considered dropping it, deleting my account or just privatizing all my works but ik the last option is impossible since people have already archived my account in archive dot org without me knowing </3

this is for so many reasons i can't list out in just one post but here i am wanting to voice out my thoughts.

yes, neglected reader tropes have now become a staple in the yan batfam tag, and i'm my own greatest hater so i tend to compare my own fanfic to everything, only to realize how basic as fuck my concept is and how the reader sometimes falls short in uniqueness and how often my own writing gets glazed when in fact, every time i read my own fic, i end up nitpicking every single detail and hating it more and more it's like a neverending cycle of wanting to rework it.

then i see my own fanfic being tagged by multiple authors as their own inspiration, but i get ashamed more so than proud because i end up reading better composed prose's, better plots and overall i just wonder if my own fanfic is actually someone's favorite since??? for me personally i just don't like 3/4's of whatever i write. i can handle reading through a loving family, but i can't go off a second reading my main series without cringing so hard to the point i just want to delete it and i almost did multiple times LMAO.

again &. again is not as grand as most, it's something i put myself down over with how watered down the neglected reader trope feels nowadays with my own writing. and a lot of my descriptions are either too wordy, or too simple or idk it's never enough when it comes to my expectations. i love angst, but i can never truly capture whatever emotions i want to show off in the fic.

so where does that take me? i become way more weary the more i post new content about it. ik people are fond of it for reasons i can't understand. sometimes, i become interested over again &. again's plot, i want to expand upon it whenever i have time to. most of the time, i end up despising it for so many other reasons not written in this rant. all the time, i just wish i've never written about it in the first place since i've been so burdened over wanting to meet people's expectations, wanting an awe factor that i end up losing the original intentions of why i've written this fanfic in the first place.

hence why i often tend to go on long hiatuses to find purpose in even writing; it's my passion, not my job but sometimes it feels like it is. sometimes i also feel underappreciated with my own content, especially with the old hate comments thrown my way, even if i tell myself not to bother with it.

people look up to me, and that praise feels undeserved especially with the amount of overwhelming comments. everyone around me is so wonderful at writing for the yandere batfam x neglected reader trope but ooh god, i feel so isolated myself with the community being so tight-knit truth be told. so many things are happening at once, and so many fanfics are being produced that people speak of, that i myself don't know except for how great everyone else is.

it doesn't help the fact that one of my favorite authors has blocked me (i don't know why, we don't talk at all and we aren't mutuals but i won't question it) and they're the main source of inspiration for some plot points in my story but what can i do? it's their boundaries and i respect that.

this rant doesn't make sense, ik it doesn't, but i need to get this off my system for a long time now. don't mine me i'm just my biggest hater y'all goodnight </3

[merakiui]

Reverse mer captivity

You’re the second mermaid to be discovered and captured for science. The first one died of maltreatment and was dissected, but scientists believe they’ve learned enough to keep you alive in captivity.

You’re trapped in a tank that feels minuscule compared to the ocean, mournfully calling to your pod while trying to avoid being poked and prodded by the scientists who seem to do it more for sadistic amusement than any real search for insight. It only gets worse when foreign dignitaries and government diplomats and generals come to see you, as you’re expected to perform for them.

Especially when you’re forced into heat to demonstrate your breeding capabilities…

Ohhhh,,,, reluctant and conflicted scientist Riddle Rosehearts who is put in charge of the whole operation. He's looking after you as the facility's best, but that does't mean they'll necessarily listen to everything he has to say. When he tries to explain to the higher-ups that you can't prosper in these conditions, that those musical sounds you make each and every night are actually cries for your own kind, they scoff and insist he's spending too much time reading fairytales again. "It's a mermaid," they tell him. "A fish. It's not human."

But you are human. Part of you is, at least. You're intelligent. You can feel and think; you have complex emotions and reactions. You grieve the loss of your friends and family, the loss of the sea. He feels so bad for you, but what can he do? He's just your caretaker, jotting notes that will either be accepted or tossed aside by higher-ups desperate to avoid a scandal and a lawsuit. Laws regarding the capture and treatment of merfolk are uncharted waters, so it's all very hazy as of now. But it doesn't take a genius to see just how unethical this is.

Riddle feels bad watching them force you down in the shallows, pinning you there so that you're spread for all of those curious eyes. He feels horrible having to watch you suffer in a forced heat, even more so when he spreads your soft, slick, puffy merpussy open on gloved fingers and explains all of the anatomical knowledge he's gleaned from his research. The way you keen around his fingers, weakly thrashing because they gave you a sedative to keep you from smacking your tail everywhere. >_< he knows it must be unbearable and he's so sorry, but then he has to do his job. Everyone's watching; they expect the genius Dr. Rosehearts to blow them away with his knowledge! He can't fail. So he has to be invasive and spread you wide, explain about the few ways reproduction works for merfolk (from what he's gathered), do his best to ignore your sweet whimpers and trills and the way your merpussy squeezes his fingers. ;;;;;

After what he's sure was a traumatic ordeal, you're released and you hastily return to the depths of your pool to suffer through the rest of your forced heat, splashing him and the other researchers on your way down. When Riddle visits you later with your dinner, you lurk in the shadows, scowling fiercely at him. He apologizes profusely under his breath, promising you he doesn't mean you any harm. You really are a beautiful creature. He wishes things were different. He's noticed your scales have seemed duller as of late. :( it's horrible, really.

He wouldn't be surprised if you wanted him dead, so he's very shocked when you're cooing at him, looking at him so sadly, almost as if you're begging for something. He doesn't understand at first until you roll over on your back to show him your puffy slit shimmering with wet beneath the fluorescents.

Oh.

You're still in heat.

Well. There's no one else here except the janitor, but even they're not dumb enough to come into your enclosure when it's so dimly lit. Maybe he could help you? It's the least he can do. He feels like he owes you so much more, considering his kind is the reason you're treated like a glorified circus animal. Besides, a sick part of him is brimming with curiosity. If you can allow this, then surely you must trust him to some degree? Maybe it's possible to establish a bond of some sort! The eager researcher in him trumps all of his morals and shame in this moment. T_T

[baronessblixen]

Saw your tags!

Yeah, our poor boy William. I guess I was most surprised that Spotnitz was deep in the CC koolaid during the latter end of the show-- then again, it's so easy to slip into that mindset if that's been your (i.e. his) life for nine years. It was interesting that he's now openly willing to talk about the show's writing faults, as if he's learned to dissect it anew with distance. (Guess who refuses to see any fault in the material, to this day?) It makes sense that he takes pride in his work, though-- the series was ambitious and a pioneer in many ways. (And, of course, I love the show.) But comparing his hindsight 20/20 realization to CC's continued blame game... yeah.

Also: I'd heard rumors here and there about DD wanting to get rid of William, so it was refreshing to track down the one-and-only source (Spotnitz.) It makes ironic sense, I think, that everyone else remembers DD's vehemence against the idea except one of the main writers; but I'm loathe to say Frank lied, either. Like I concluded, he probably just misremembered or assigned intent where it didn't belong-- perhaps a consequence of doing round-table talks last minute.

You know who I really felt bad for? John Shiban. From his interviews, he seemed really personally connected to the William storyline, and only gave it up when it became clear that the little guy would always be a "target" in canon. Then again, that's how DD, GA, and Spotnitz were convinced... but it was almost... painful, in his case. The way he talks about that decision after the fact. It made me want to give him and baby Shiban an affectionate head pat and assure him he (and the others) had the right instincts. Ah, well.

To me, Mulder and Scully are still loving on their adorable baby boy; to others, William doesn't exist; and to still others, he's driving home with someone cute for his baby sister. Canon, am I right? :D

I'm not surprised he was deep in the CC koolaid. He's definitely changed tune now. I think he mentioned that working on another show (I don't remember which one) showed him that maybe they didn't focus enough on the emotional impact storylines had on Mulder and Scully. I really wish he'd been available for the revival. Though who knows if CC had listened to him.

Still, some of the things I'm reading here. This here "Having a child, notes Spotnitz, “is something that people do after a number of years." made me so angry. This is exactly how they treated the pregnancy and William. Like someone is just getting a haircut. Don't like it? Just get another one. I understand Shiban's frustrations. Makes sense to me, too, since it was his son Mulder and Scully held at the end of Existence.

CC hasn't really worked since XF, has he? I even understand his refusal to let go of his ideas, but it's been years. In some cases, decades. It's okay. We all make mistakes. Just own up to it. This is why I'd love CC on DD's podcast. Though he might not open up there either.

I'm glad everyone can just decide canon ends at one point. Whether that's the end of season 5, FTF, or season 7, or season 8, or 9 or IWTB. Or the revival.

[storkmuffin]

just found your blog yesterday, it's super interesting reading through your different posts. do you have any more thoughts on jongho?💖

I have not done a deep dive on Jongho yet because of Yunho (let's go kick him together), but I DO have thoughts on Jongho floating around in my head.

During the whole fortune teller episode, Jongho said that he had been feeling a decrease of confidence the longer he was an entertainer. Has anyone in the Jongho ult world given this some thought?? He said he felt couldn't be as expressive as he wanted to be. I've been wondering what he has meant the whole time. He doesn't dance all out like he did at the start with The KQ Fellas, because the Ateez sound is extremely reliant on Jongho high notes as much as Mingi hollers, and there just isn't breath. I also think he was injured a bit (again, lack of deep dive, so I don't know for sure). Is that what he means or does he mean something else?

Jongho actually has the most abrupt duality of all of them. His face is so cute and sweet. He looks positively edible when he's actually amused and really smiling. He's very playful. But he's tough as fuck. He's got proper old soul energy, like a really big, really old tree with a huge trunk and deep roots type deal, which is so weird for someone who is still in his mid twenties to be projecting already. He's deeply serious, and he wants you calm the fuck down and be serious as well. Except when he's being feral and riling everyone up and making everything seven thousand times worse just to see what happens. Duality.

I wonder if he enjoys being in an Idol group. He's totally capable and ready to go solo as a balladeer. I think all the rest of them think about how much fun it would be to be the center and alone on stage with nobody present and get 100% of the attention, but Jongho is already there. I got totally turned around on Jongho from seeing him Live (more on that below). Because he is going to sing a really difficult ballad, center stage, standing still, ALONE, JUST TOTALLY ALONE (no dancers, no lights show, nothing) and bring the roof down. In a group of very competitive, macho-energy guys, this was him just standing on everyone's neck AND WITH A PLEADING LOVE BALLAD TO BOOT and I was BLOWN away.

Jongho struck me as potentially humorless (I do not enjoy his adherence to confucian social values tm) and arrogant (compared to the eager-to-please-ness that animates Wooyoung, Yunho or Seonghwa, especially) at first, but I think now that he just is a really tough, solid old soul who likes what he likes and has no qualms about giving the finger to doing anything he doesn't wanna do. I think this might make him a rather unusual idol. An Idol with actual boundaries akin to an ordinary-job person.

I enjoy Jongho's evident straightness and total rejection of fanservice BL things. This also makes him unusual in the current Idol market. The sheer force of Jongho's heterosexuality is such that in an 8 person team, there's a threesome (Woosansang) because Jongho absolutely won't have it. I find this very amusing.

[milimeters-morales]

Miles “I’m An Emotionally Intelligent Guy” Morales and Pavitr “I Can Read People Very Well” Prabhakar about to start extreme drama in the comment section of a youtube short about empaths and the ethics of rpf

[egophiliac]

I love your take on Crowley!

I know that the early, non-Diasomnia stories aren't really your thing, but are you reading the novels at all?

I have been following some of the fan translations and the second book seems intense! Would love to hear what you think about them.

thank you! 💚💚💚 I'm not really sure why you think I don't like the earlier arcs though, I love pretty much all the characters and their storis! (I think 5 and 1 are my favorite of the past episodes, though 6 infected me with the Shroud brainrot something fierce.) I just...ESPECIALLY love diasomnia. :') but there is room in my heart for all of these dweebs! like, who among us is not just as ride-or-die for Adeuce as they are for us.

that said, I don't really follow the other adaptations like the manga (aside from a dip-in just to see the new Yuus) or the novels, though I keep meaning to check them out! I do like seeing the differences between the different forms of media, and how certain things get adapted one way or another! but alas, time/a lack of accessibility stands in our way more often than not. :( someday...someday I will have time to consume all of the media...

[lambmotifz]

this is a controversial take but i don’t really think sexual wincest dynamic would be the same as the dynamics they have with girls. mostly because this interpretation tends to ignore canonical nuances that define sam and dean’s relationship, which includes dean’s extreme possessiveness, sam’s willing submissiveness with dean (especially when it comes to physical touch), the fact that dean is the only one with whom sam is able to be physically vulnerable in a way he can’t with anybody else, the fact that dean genuinely loves taking care of his little brother. it’s an essential part of their relationship, and it just makes sense for it to be part of their sexual dynamic too

[lady-corrine]

One of the (many) reasons I deeply dislike the "Annie and Finnick's wedding was only a propaganda move that meant absolutely nothing to anyone" take is that is... simply not accurate?

It is often claimed Plutarch had Finnick and Annie intentionally wear Peeta and Katniss' outfits to send some type of message, but that means to completely ignore how it was Katniss herself that offered to give Annie a dress for her wedding:

“when Plutarch has a fit over what the bride will wear — I volunteer to take Annie back to my house in 12, where Cinna left a variety of evening clothes in a big storage closet downstairs.”

How Peeta himself also made their wedding cake:

“As surely as the embroidery stitches in Annie’s gown were done by Cinna’s hand, the frosted flowers on the cake were done by Peeta’s.”

And to also disregard how everyone else felt and how happy and excited they were to be part of it:

“When it’s announced that children are wanted to sing District 4’s wedding song, practically every kid shows up. There’s no shortage of volunteers to help make decorations. In the dining hall, people chat excitedly about the event.”

All in all, it means to brush aside how everyone perceived their wedding as simply something good, genuinely so, and nothing linked to a false spectacle:

“Maybe it’s more than the festivities. Maybe it’s that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be part of it.”

[arolesbianism]

Sometimes I just look at Isabeau and just know that if isat came out and I got into it when I was like 16 he would be my favorite character and I would've gone absolutely buck wild over this man and feel like he was laser targeting me. But alas Odile has a grip of steel on me rn due to her virtue of being a middle aged woman

[abyssmalice]

(thinking about tonitoni family again bc of that ask and while theres many things i can say, i should at least Definitely mention that with like, one exception, this entire family is too headstrong for their own good.

you see tonitoni's stubbornness and tendency to dig her nose into shit without really thinking about it? (or even if she does think about, she chooses to dig her nose into it anyway?) that's like, genetic, i guess.

her dad has it. her mom has it. her older sister and all her brothers Except One has it. like, they too would get themselves into major trouble if they had a good reason for it. tonitoni thinks she's just the odd one out bc of her circumstances but noooo her whole family is like this actually)

[icharchivist]

Did Lu Woh choose an Erune form because he likes cats?

Maybe!!! We can't know for sure. But considering he's so serious and focused with what he's doing it's interesting that he still picked Erune over human as a mortal form.

so he must be liking cats. I have to believe.

tho tbh i was joking a bit but the more i think about it, the more i think Granblue may be setting him up on that part -- because like... The Many Lives of Cats and Dante's whole approach to Cat and Life is something that Granblue really love and believe in, that life is worth living once you remember your own freedom the way cats do. Considering Lu Woh is the guardian of life and the fact Granblue is setting up "Cats know how to live the good life" i think Granblue has an agenda for Lu Woh in the end.

and i swear i'm not even fully joking!!! i believe!!!

who knows...

[cantdanceflynn]

OK ALAS MY LIFE SERIES EXCITEMENT HAS WANED Y REALIZING THAT BY LIZZIE TAKING THE CANARY CURSE EVERYONE WHO HAS THE ABSOLUTE WORST TAKES ON HER BOTH AS A CHARACTER AND A CC HAS FIXATED ON HER N IT SUCKSSSSSS

SO INSTEAD TAKE MY FIRST FULLY GENED BOY :) I HAVE A HABIT OF BUYING FODDER DRAGONS FOR REAL QUICK BREEDING N THEN GETTING OH SO ATTACHED BUT THIS GUY WAS MY FIRST REAL "IK UR COLORS ARENT GREAT AND I COULD DO SO MUCH BETTER W U BUT I LOBE YOU SO MUCH"(ITS ALWAYS PEARLCATCHERS LOL) SO HES PART OF MY CURRENT LORE IM PROBABLY GONNA INFODUMP BOUT BC ITS SUCH A WORK IN PROGRESS BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY NON-PNF THINGS TO FUCKING GET ME INVESTED™ LATELY AND I WANNA DO STUFF W IT

[drowningroane]

Reading the tag made me think of how Shen Jiu was a Worse Version of Severus Snape due to the Trauma Shang Qinghua drafted out for Shen Jiu's backstory.

i love that sqq is such a good teacher. i love that by just being in qing jing peak he changed it from a dreadful place to what airplane hysterically called a daycare for adhd children. i love that thanks to his intervention and mentoring ming fan and ning yingying grew up to be upstanding disciples that took care of everything while sqq was dead. i love that one of the reasons lbh got out of the abyss earlier was thanks to sqq's teachings and training. i love that the qjp disciples all come to receive their shizun at the mountain gate and cry for his attention, because they clearly adore him. i love that sqq LOVES teaching, to the point he takes a teaching post at an academy just because he can't stand doing nothing.

i just. love shen qingqiu so much

[curlicuecal]

playing science telephone

Hi folks. Let's play a fun game today called "unravelling bad science communication back to its source."

Journey with me.

Saw a comment going around on a tumblr thread that "sometimes the life expectancy of autism is cited in the 30s"

That number seemed..... strange. The commenter DID go on to say that that was "situational on people being awful and not… anything autism actually does", but you know what? Still a strange number. I feel compelled to fact check.

Quick Google "autism life expectancy" pulls up quite a few websites bandying around the number 39. Which is ~technically~ within the 30s, but already higher than the tumblr factoid would suggest. But, guess what. This number still sounds strange to me.

Most of the websites presenting this factoid present themselves as official autism resources and organizations (for parents, etc), and most of them vaguely wave towards "studies."

Ex: "Above And Beyond Therapy" has a whole article on "Does Autism Affect Life Expectancy" and states:

The link implies that it will take you to the "research studies" being referenced, but it in fact takes you to another random autism resource group called.... Songbird Care?

And on that website we find the factoid again:

Ooh, look. Now they've added the word "some". The average lifespan for SOME autistic people. Which the next group erased from the fact. The message shifts further.

And we have slightly more information about the study! (Which has also shifted from "studies" to a singular "study"). And we have another link!

Wonderfully, this link actually takes us to the actual peer-reviewed 2020 study being discussed. [x]

And here, just by reading the abstract, we find the most important information of all.

This study followed a cohort of adolescent and adult autistic people across a 20 year time period. Within that time period, 6.4% of the cohort died. Within that 6.4%, the average age of death was 39 years.

So this number is VERY MUCH not the average age of death for autistic people, or even the average age of death for the cohort of autistic people in that study. It is the average age of death IF you died young and within the 20 year period of the study (n=26), and also we don't even know the average starting age of participants without digging into earlier papers, except that it was 10 or older. (If you're curious, the researchers in the study suggested reduced self-sufficiency to be among the biggest risk factors for the early mortality group.)

But the number in the study has been removed from it's context, gradually modified and spread around the web, and modified some more, until it is pretty much a nonsense number that everyone is citing from everyone else.

There ARE two other numbers that pop up semi-frequently:

One cites the life expectancy at 58. I will leave finding the context for that number as an exercise for the audience, since none of the places I saw it gave a direct citation for where they were getting it.

And then, probably the best and most relevant number floating around out there (and the least frequently cited) draws from a 2023 study of over 17,000 UK people with an autism diagnosis, across 30 years. [x] This study estimated life expectancies between 70 and 77 years, varying with sex and presence/absence of a learning disability. (As compared to the UK 80-83 average for the population as a whole.)

This is a set of numbers that makes way more sense and is backed by way better data, but isn't quite as snappy a soundbite to pass around the internet. I'm gonna pass it around anyway, because I feel bad about how many scared internet people I stumbled across while doing this search.

People on quora like "I'm autistic, can I live past 38"-- honey, YES. omg.

---

tl;dr, when someone gives you a number out of context, consider that the context is probably important

also, make an amateur fact checker's life easier and CITE YOUR SOURCES

[luna-azzurra]

Ways I Show a Character is In Love But Doesn't Know It Yet...

This one’s for the emotional masochists writing the slowest of burns, where your readers are screaming “just kiss already!” by chapter twenty... I Love and Hate you... ♥

They compare everyone else to the person… and everyone else comes up short. Even when they’re not consciously doing it. No one’s laugh is as warm. No one’s eyes crinkle that way.

They remember the weirdest little things about them. Birthdays? Whatever. But that time they snorted laughing at a dumb joke? Locked and loaded.

They feel weirdly guilty when flirting with someone else. Like they’re cheating… except they’re not even dating. Or are they? Or—ugh, feelings are the worst.

They notice every damn detail when the other person isn’t around. "They’d like this song." "This smells like their shampoo." "I wonder what they'd say about this weird squirrel."

They use weird, overly specific compliments. Not “You look good,” but “That color makes your eyes look like a storm in a novel I’d cry over.”

They get weirdly intense about that person being hurt or in danger. Like, irrationally intense. "He’s just a friend," they say while planning to murder anyone who makes them cry.

They feel safer around them than anyone else, and it freaks them out. Like: “I’m always on guard. Except with you. That’s... suspicious.”